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readlikeido · 11 months

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some pretty pink spines 💖

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jerseydeanne · 1 year

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sallyrooneygf · 11 months

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Bella Mackie, How to kill your family

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shxpeshifterr · 9 months

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samireads · 2 years

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torahtot · 1 year

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me when im reading how to kill your family by bella mackie

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trying-vee · 2 years

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Reading: How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie

I have opinions

- misogyny is rampant in this book, both explicit and more internalised

- in fact, I actually can’t tell if Bella Mackie just has a lot of internalised misogyny or if it was for the character

- seems to excuse slut- and body-shaming without a problem from the protagonist but derides it from other characters

- paragraphs upon paragraphs of ‘eat the rich’ which is fine actually, I’m good w that

- just a dash of classism

- very white

Actually, I think my main problem is that it’s written by a woman who’s been hired by both Vogue and GQ magazine, was educated in a private school in the UK, is very white despite having that brown tan she shits on in the first five minutes of her own novel, and some how manages to shit on millennials despite being one herself.

It feels as though her humour is supposed to be “haha! That’s so true!” When really it’s more along the lines of “👀👀why are you offended by people just living their lives?”

Admittedly, this could all just be an affectation that she uses for the book. The tone she uses to more accurately reflect her MC but so rarely is it necessary.

Like. Yeah. We get it. You hate lip fillers and fake tans because every Tiff, Molly, and Em and have them and it’s ‘not natural’ and they can only afford it because their family’s well-off.

What she doesn’t seem get is that the lip filler and fake tan is a trend with roots in racism and is consistently fuelled by classism. And it shows.

Especially when your only characters that aren’t white are only found outside of the UK, in the nail shop, or are so barely significant to the story you forget their existence.

I’m not saying it’s not a good book. It’s just very clear the protagonist (and by inference, the author) aren’t aware of their own internalised prejudices. The hypocrisy is actually incredible when you’re reading this.

The whole thing is written from the perspective of a white millennial woman with the deep desire to enact retribution on her father who is so wealthy he could’ve been Bruce Wayne with the right motivation. So it’s easy to understand why she would hate rich people, male or female, and feel as though she had the right to judge them for their privilege. That’s fine, honestly. But Bella Mackie has stated that this is supposed to be a book to help other women see feminine rage.

I don’t see feminine rage. I see an angry woman yes. But it comes across less about the fact that all her struggles have been a result of men, and more that they’ve all come from not having been born with the silver spoon she could’ve had.

It is fun tho. Less humorous than it claims to be. A bit like Alias Grace with more certainty about the Whodunnit and less passiveness in her acts of murder.

Also, I found a website that put Bella Mackie’s year of birth as 1964 and I almost had a field day before quickly finding out it was just a typo (confirmed by other sources, she’s 38, not 58).

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bookishfarmer · 2 years

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12.10.2022

Took me two days to read this book and I loved it. Definitely need to read in a short amount of time though or I think you’d lose the flow. I’ve heard a lot of people didn’t enjoy the end but I thought it was tied together well - although not how I’d have liked it to end. But it was worried about the ending with certain events and it was better than I thought it may have been

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studywithjennifer · 2 years

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How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie

Book 26/50 of 2022

Date Finished: 19th March 2022

Rating: 2/5

#god this book sucks #the protagonist is so narcissistic and not like other girls #not worth the paper its printed on #literature #books #bookblr #bookworm #how to kill your family #bella mackie

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heloisedaphnebrightmore · 2 years

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so here comes the rant: the book is about this girl who plans since childhood to kill her runaway dad’s family but ends up in jail for the only murder she didn’t commit!!! it’s real good in making you root for a murderer and feel some sort of compassion towards her BUT THE ENDING MADE ME WANNA SCREAM i mean when the girl is about to leave jail she receives an email from a long lost brother she didn’t know she had telling her HE KILLED THEIR DAD AND STOLE HER MONEY AND IS NOW THREATENING HER INTO SILENCE - summing up: a cishet stole all her glory and hard work

i also read romances pretty much exclusively this one i was taking about had like snippets of love but now i’m jumping into a dual pov romance (the road-trip) to soothe my fluff withdrawal

you know what? these exact questions also swirl through my mind when i’m with any group of people that are not my close friends HAHAHA precisely the “am i too loud?” when i start rambling

long analytical reviews are a turnoff for me too i think i’d like them in person like in a book club of sorts but online i just skim through some when i’m not sure if i should buy a book or not - and same here, the more filth the better!! the other day i read this amazing super cute book called just last night but the girl didn’t even describe their kiss!!!! she was like “i kissed him and he kissed me back enthusiastically” and cut 🙄

~goodreads anon

Lol, that's so disappointing! I'm sorry! I know it was probably a plot twist of some kind or something but these types of twists make me so mad when I read one :D

Never heard of The Road Trip so I'll look into it!

Understandable! I mean when you are around people you don't really know or not as close with, there are always these little evil thoughts/voices trying to make you doubt yourself :)

Same. Analytic reviews are good, but like I prefer them if it's in a face to face conversation or if someone is specifically writing these reviews for the authors or readers, requesting them to review certain books. However when I read reviews, I prefer them short and sweet. Give me a short summary, the tropes that you found in the book, a short description of the characters as in broody villain or sunshine heroine etc. With that I get a small picture of what to expect and I can decide whether it interests me or not.

Oh no! I love a detailed description of intimate moments. I remember once I read a book, don't ask me what it was, and the MC kissed the FMC and that was it. After hundreds of pages of pinning, it was literally, "so we kissed"... anticlimactic if you ask me. We need to know the details. Make the kiss and filthy as possible xD But thanks for the heads up, I won't read Just Last Night. Romance is a huge part of every book I read. I'm a sucker for it. I personally don't even like when the FMC and MC don't even meet until about 1/2 of a book. Like at least make them appear for a moment here and there like Rhys was in ACOTAR. You don't have to make them the main focus, but make their presence known. Sorry, I'm rambling.

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milestoearth · 21 days

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